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Two hundred photobooks across five decades—a raucous, one-of-a-kind tour through Parr's monumental history with the medium.Published with PhotoBook Museum, Cologne.As a photographer, publisher, writer, collector and image editor, with an eye trained on the absurdities of our global consumer and leisure culture, Martin Parr (1952–2025) has been bringing the photobook into the consciousness of contemporary photography since the turn of the millennium, publishing more than 200 books over the course of five decades. Grand Hotel Parr accompanies the first comprehensive photobook retrospective on Parr, organized by the PhotoBookMuseum and the Neues Museum in Cologne, Germany. In an elaborate staging inspired by the appearance of a hotel complex, the titular exhibition invites visitors to explore over 200 of the artist's photobooks. The tour through the various rooms of the hotel, such as the billiard room, the dining room and the fashion boutique, picks up on various themes from Parr's publications, creating a bizarre world that vacillates between ostentation and kitsch. Grand Hotel Parr showcases photographs from this one-of-a-kind exhibition as well as a bevy of essays by scholars and curators who explore Parr's storied history with the medium.

“Desconcertante, lista a inquietar a la crítica, está ya en los escaparates la primera novela de Juan Rulfo, “Pedro Páramo”, que transcurre en una serie de transposiciones oníricas, ahondando más allá de la muerte de sus personajes, que uno no sabe en qué momento son sueño, vida, fábula, verdad, pero a los que se les oye la voz al través de la ‘perspicacia despiadada y certera’ de tan sin duda extraordinario escritor.” Con estas palabras iniciaba Edmundo Valadés la primera reseña de Pedro Páramo, aparecida el 30 de marzo de 1955 y conservada por Rulfo entre sus papeles. Desde entonces, escritores como Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, Gunter Grass, Susan Sontag y Mario Vargas Llosa, o el cineasta Werner Herzog, entre muchos más de cualquier lengua, coinciden en calificar esta novela como una de las obras maestras de la literatura de todos los tiempos.The work of Juan Rulfo (1917–1986) is doubtless the Mexican literary creation which has received the greatest acclaim both in Mexico and abroad. The novel “Pedro Páramo” underwent a long gestation. Rulfo mentioned it for the first time in a letter in 1947, and was able to work on it in 1953–1954 thanks to a grant from the Centro Mexicano de Escritores. Excerpts were published in three maga¬zines in 1954, before the novel appeared in book form in 1955. This masterpiece has numbered Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Susan Sontag among its admirers. “Pedro Páramo” evokes the very essence of Mexico through the most advanced literary forms and techniques of the twentieth century. Few works affect a Mexican reader as deeply as this novel, which also holds a place as a classic of world literature. It has been translated into almost fifty languages and new versions appear every year.

The third edition of Yamamoto’s much-loved photographic homage to the precarious, the delicate and the humble, complete with a sumptuously produced and redesigned coverJapanese photographer Masao Yamamoto trained as an oil painter before discovering that photography was the ideal medium for the theme that most interested him—the ability of the image to evoke memories.First released in 2015 with a second edition in 2021 and long since out of print, Small Things in Silence surveys the 20-year career of one of Japan's most important photographers. Yamamoto's portraits, landscapes and still lifes are made into small, delicate prints, which the photographer frequently overpaints, dyes or steeps in tea. Edited and sequenced by Yamamoto himself, this volume includes images from each of the photographer's major projects—Box of Ku, Nakazora, Kawa and Shizuka—as well as installation shots of some of Yamamoto's original photographic installations. In the words of Yamamoto himself: ""I try to capture moments that no one sees and make a photo from them. When I see them in print, a new story begins."" Now in its third edition, the book features a newly designed linen hardback cover with embossing and a tipped-on image.Masao Yamamoto (born 1957) lives and works in Japan. He has published numerous books, including two previous editions of Small Things in Silence (RM/Seigensha, 2015 and 2021) and Tori (Radius Books, 2016). His work is held in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the International Center of Photography, New York, and others.

Monasterio’s speculative photo series imagines the Mexico City that might have emerged without colonizationPablo Ortiz Monasterio (born 1952) offers a photographic perspective of Mexico City that captures its pre-Hispanic and colonial past through its surviving archaeological and architectural remnants. Tenochtitlan, once a metropolis of a different kind, now stands as a modern city, layered over the remains of an ancient civilization.

Vicuña applies her poetic sensibilities to her hand-tinted photographs of Santiago street life under the Chilean dictatorshipPublished with Toluca and Fundacion Lariviere.Roaming the streets of 1970s Santiago with a Russian camera in hand, poet-turned-photographer Leonora Vicuña (born 1952) captured its denizens in bars, cinemas and dance halls, hand-coloring and manipulating them to create a dreamlike, imaginary world removed from an austere reality.

"Pedro Páramo is one of the best novels of Spanish-language literature, and even of literature." —Jorge Luis BorgesPublished with Fundación Juan Rulfo.Juan Preciado makes a promise to his dying mother that he will travel to the town of Comala in search of his father, the titular character. Instead, Juan encounters a ghost town that relays to him the fragmented history of his father's cruel and violent life, and how he led Comala to ruin. Though met with an unwelcome critical reception in the years after its publication, Pedro Páramo has ascended into the canon of Mexican literature and magical realism writ large, thanks in no small part to its star-studded list of devotees. Gabriel García Márquez called it "the most beautiful novel ever written in the Spanish language," while Susan Sontag proclaimed: "The goal of every writer's life is to produce one great book—that is, an enduring work—and that is what Rulfo achieved."Commemorating the 70th edition of its original publication, this Spanish-language edition of Pedro Páramo includes unmissable archival material, including more than 100 cover designs from translated editions in over 30 languages. A charming black-and-white postcard of Rulfo placed between the pages provides a glimpse into the character and personality of the "father of magical realism."Juan Rulfo (1917–86) was born in the state of Jalisco, Mexico. The corpus of his narrative work is his short story collection El llano en llamas, his novella El gallo de oro and the novel Pedro Páramo. He was a member of the Mexican Academy of Language. In 1983 he received the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature and in 1985 he was named Doctor honoris causa by the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Snapshots, recollections and anecdotes from the foremost street photographer of 20th-century SpainThe monograph-cum-memoir of photographer Francesc Català-Roca (1922–98) stands as a testament to the analog era, and as a landmark for street photography in Spain during the Francoist era. Thirty years after its original publication, this new edition includes previously unpublished images alongside Català-Roca's entertaining and spontaneous anecdotes.

An expanded edition of the most comprehensive survey to date on the work of iconic Mexican photographer Graciela IturbidePublished with MAPFRE.Mexico City-born Graciela Iturbide (born 1942) is one of Latin America's most acclaimed photographers and the only Latin American woman to have received the prestigious Hasselblad Award. With a focus on identity, sexuality, festivals, rituals, daily life, death and the roles of women, Iturbide's photographs share visual stories of cultures in constant transitional periods.Featuring over 200 photographs, this expanded edition book comprises one of the most comprehensive explorations of Iturbide's career to date, gathering an impressive and widespread selection of her work, curated by Marta Dahó. It includes some of her best-known images, such as Frida Kahlo's Bedroom (2005), Those Who Live in the Sand (1979) and Juchitán (1979), as well as many lesser-known works. She pays special attention to her most iconic images and offers a cross-sectional journey from her earliest projects to her most recent creations. Over the course of her four-decade career, Iturbide has built up a poetic language of images and symbols; a consistent preoccupation is the juxtaposition between urban and rural life. The subjects of her black-and-white photography mostly reside in Latin America but encompass India, Europe and Asia as well. This volume provides an essential overview of her accomplishments.

A tribute to a leading exponent of Kinetic art, in honor of the centenary of Soto's birthPublished with RGR Gallery .The Venezuelan painter and sculptor Jesús Rafael Soto (1923–2005) is exalted as a pioneer of Kinetic and Op art. Faced with a world in constant movement, Soto responded in kind, employing his knowledge of geometry and negative space to create three-dimensional works that appear to vibrate or shift in space. He worked with unorthodox materials such as nylon, Perspex, steel and industrial paint to attain this destabilizing effect.Published to commemorate the centenary of the artist's birth, The Instability of the Real showcases arresting reproductions of Soto's works, immersing readers in his innovative experiments with movement, perception and space. The volume offers rare insights into his creative processes, the cultural context of his time and his profound impact on the art world, featuring a series of scholarly essays as well as a suite of five interviews with the artist, marking each decade from 1960 to 2000.

Magic, exile and migration weave together in Palau’s pioneering oeuvre, especially in her anti-colonial textile sculptures made from natural materialsPublished with MUAC/Tapies Foundation.Spanish Mexican artist Marta Palau (1934–2022) was one of the first to focus on women’s and immigrants’ experiences in Mexico during the 1970s, especially through her Ilerda series and Nahual sculptures made with local materials.

Eurocentric geometric abstraction meets traditional Indigenous aesthetic in this bold comparison of visual structurePublished with Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey and Juan Carlos Maldonado Collection .A radical attempt to compare two incommensurable aesthetic forms, Convergences Divergences pairs Western geometric abstractions with the traditional crafts of the Ye'kwana communities, located in southern Venezuela and northern Brazil.

Eggshells, shoe soles, feathers and other discarded or obsolete objects form de la Mora's minimal yet technically complex oeuvrePublished with Museo Jumex and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey.Tessellating human hair, eggshell fragments, butterfly wings and shards of obsidian, Gabriel de la Mora (born 1968) creates intricate and mosaic-like compositions reflecting on aspects of eroticism, death and transformation. La Petite Mort features more than 80 works, illustrated with copious detail images.

An intimate reflection on loss, mourning and memory, made manifest through Manenti's spectral black-and-white photographyUpon receiving a large-format camera in 2012, the American photographer Ruth Lauer Manenti (born 1968) at last accessed a poetic sensibility she had first sought within drawing and painting. Her spectral photographs evoke the ephemeral motion of life and the vertiginous memories it impresses. In her new series, 4 Sides of The Table, made from 2022 to 2024, Manenti continues her meditation upon time's passage. The inciting image for this series emerged from an intimate, sorrowful scene: her mother's best friend, June, reading poetry as Manenti's mother lay dying in bed. In the wake of loss, Manenti found within June a maternal replacement. She began photographing June in segmented parts from various angles: hands, legs, front, back, partial views. When June's own daughter unexpectedly died, Manenti, too, became a replacement. Together, Manenti and June document the poignant work of mourning—the effort to preserve the unseen through new material forms.

Through patience and consistency, Salvans turns banal encounters in a supermarket lot into a visual symphony of life on the urban peripheryTxema Salvans (born 1971) has spent every sunny Sunday for the past 10 years on the roof of his van, photographing people who gather in a supermarket parking lot on the outskirts of Barcelona. This unlikely leisure ground, both empty and absurd, hosts practical routines, quiet breaks and even silent quests to suspend time.

As urban development erases Al-Max’s daily life and traditions, Mahdy builds a living archive of the neighborhood through its residentsPublished with Trobades Camus.Through photography, community archives, handwritten letters and personal accounts, Mohamed Mahdy (born 1996) follows the residents of Al-Max, a historic fishing neighborhood in Alexandria, Egypt, who are now facing displacement in the face of encroaching urbanization.

“A visual symphony of drawing and painting, delving deeply into the many shades of femininity, sexuality and maternity.” —Erica Silverman, WhitewallPublished with Galería RGR.Mexican artist Magali Lara’s (born 1956) paintings, drawings and collages tinker with the boundaries between image and text, operating in the liminal space between figuration and abstraction. This publication invites a renewed reading of her oeuvre through the sphere of female intimacy.

A collection of never-before-seen photographs from the Manuel Álvarez Bravo Archive that document a storied neighborhood in Mexico CityPublished with Gato Negro Ediciones/Archivo Manuel Álvarez Bravo.The self-taught Mexican photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902–2002) is widely regarded as a giant of 20th-century photography. Inspired by the Surrealists’ penchant for unexpected relationships found among objects, Bravo’s photographs thematically engage with death and mortality through symbolic images of daily life.Pedregal showcases never-before-published photographs from the Manuel Álvarez Bravo Archive. Twenty years after its founding, the ArcMAB continues to promote new interpretations of its holdings and keeps its doors open to researchers and curators interested in engaging with Bravo’s work. The selection presented here highlights the photographer’s vision of Pedregal, a historic neighborhood in the south of Mexico City. In these images, volcanic stone becomes a territory where memory, modernity and future intertwine, and the monumental coexists with the intimate, revealing the vital force that emerges within a rugged landscape. Supplementing Bravo’s photographs are documentary materials related to the neighborhood’s development and evolution, such as the construction of Ciudad Universitaria. Pedregal, then, presents a view of the territory that is both personal and collective, fantastical and grounded.

A nearly overwhelming mountain of earth, clay and straw, Morelos’ installation is a multisensory encounter evoking a transcendent, embryonic statePublished with MUAC.Traveling from the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City to London’s Barbican Centre, El espacio vientre (The Womb Space) by Colombian artist Delcy Morelos (born 1967) is a monumental earthwork designed to be explored, dissolving lines between subject and object.

Mournful glimpses into the last remaining businesses within a slowly shuttering postmodern mallPhotographer Sebastián Thomas (born 1982) wanders through Santiago’s Pirámide del Sol—a shopping center struggling to maintain its place among other malls—to photograph the lives and occupations of the shopkeepers who still endure within its interior.

The most comprehensive survey to date of contemporary photographic projects on the Spanish Civil War, bringing together more than 120 catalogs and photobooksOver the past 25 years, a new generation of photographers has given visual form to memories of the Spanish Civil War shaped by silence, distance and inherited trauma rather than direct experience. As grandchildren of those who lived through the conflict, their work emerges from family omissions, institutionalized amnesia and the absence of shared reference points. These photographs do not seek to reconstruct the past, but rather to address the present and reveal how unresolved histories continue to resonate today.This two-volume boxed publication presents the results of an extensive research and curatorial project dedicated to the recovery, cataloging, analysis and dissemination of photographic work on the Spanish Civil War published between 1999 and 2025. It draws from the 120 publications held by the Spanish Civil War Photographic Memory Archive, which has a particular focus on contemporary photobooks.

With a sober, human-centered gaze, Samsó’s vision of Barcelona invites readers to rediscover the city from its marginsIn his black-and-white photographs, Leopoldo Samsó (born 1946) presents a Barcelona far removed from clichéd postcard imagery. The city is shown as a lived space, shaped by minimal encounters and a quiet coexistence between people and architecture.

Haunted by beauty: a photographic meditation on the phenomenon of cosmetic surgery Published with Ediciones Posibles/Phree/PSV.Chinese photographer Yufan Lu (born 1991) investigates the prevalence of and motivations behind cosmetic surgery through a series of photocollages of convalescing patients. Lu describes her work as “death masks,” halting images stuck between hope and insecurity, determination and sacrifice.

Discover the intellectual and emotional influences behind Barragán’s architectural vision through an unprecedented peek at his personal book collectionPublished with Fundación de Arquitectura Tapatía Luis Barragán/Casa Luis Barragán.This book offers an intimate exploration of the creative universe of Luis Barragán through the lens of his personal library, housed in his home-studio in Mexico City, now the Casa Luis Barragán Museum, considered to be one of his most important buildings. More than a survey of an architect’s work, this volume reveals the inner life of Mexico’s most influential architect and the 1980 Pritzker Prize laureate by tracing the books, authors and ideas that shaped his vision. Barragán was an avid reader who understood books not only as sources of knowledge but as emotional bridges to friends, collaborators and kindred spirits. His library emerges here as a living archive—one that reflects his deep engagement with art, spirituality, landscape and modernity. Moving through this space is to enter a world governed by silence, solitude and serenity: essential values that permeate both his architecture and his way of life. The publication is enriched by a visual essay by acclaimed photographer David Jiménez, whose images capture the subtle interplay of light and shadow, intimacy and stillness, revealing the quiet beauty of the spaces where Barragán fused traditional Mexican architecture with international modernism.Luis Barragán (1902–88) was born in Guadalajara and lived and worked primarily in Mexico City, where he also died. An architect and engineer, Barragán is regarded as the most prominent figure in modern Mexican architecture. His architectural approach embraces the principles of Modernism while remaining deeply rooted in Mexican tradition.

The traditional Spanish ritual, legally regulated for half a millennium, and its path to the llaneros, charros and gauchos of the New WorldManuel Naranjo Martell (born 1988) has spent nearly a decade documenting the traditional roundup of wild mares in Spain’s Doñana National Park. He proposes a visual reading of a shared heritage between the lands of the lower Guadalquivir River and the Americas, united by a profound bond with the horse.

Unmoored from any sequential framework, de Middel’s images propose a way of seeing that reveals the disorientation of our timeCombining documentary and conceptual techniques, the work of Magnum photographer Cristina de Middel (born 1975) is driven by narrative. Her projects have often begun from reconstructed stories or symbolic universes that made it possible to bring order to the chaos of the world. Now, de Middel’s newest photobook turns the narrative axis on its head. Through a selection of more than 250 photographs, Apotheosis Now suspends chronology and plot, resisting the urge to explain or discourse. Whether of stacks of pizza crusts, a child on a horse or a curtain softly blowing before an open window, these images are autonomous, existing in and of themselves. Because they are stripped of sequence, they also reshape the rhythm of reading. They invite the viewer to linger a little longer than usual before each image, to grant it a kind of attention we rarely allow today.

A partir de la aparición de “Pedro Páramo”, Rulfo escribe su segunda novela, “El gallo de oro”. Ambientada en el mundo de las peleas de gallos y concebida como proyecto cinematográfico, probablemente se trate de la obra menos conocida del autor mexicano. No obstante ese desconocimiento, la valoración literaria está al mismo nivel que “Pedro Páramo” y “Llano en Llamas”.From the appearance of "Pedro Páramo", Rulfo writes his second novel, "El gallo de oro". Set in the world of cockfighting and conceived as a film project, it is probably the lesser-known work of the Mexican author. Despite this ignorance, the literary valuation is at the same level as "Pedro Páramo" and "Llano en Llamas". On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Juan Rulfo, RM publishes a special edition of "El gallo de oro" to which other stories that complement it are incorporated. The film script of "The secret formula", two early stories by Juan Rulfo: "Life is not very serious in its things" and "A piece of night", and also the one entitled "Castillo de Teayo". Also included is a letter from Rulfo to his wife, Clara Aparicio, in which Rulfo makes a harsh reflection on the nature of a heartless economic system. Finally, the reader will find nine texts that originally appeared in the collection of texts Los cuadernos de Juan Rulfo, an edition that is out of print.